What would the population be if there was no compulsary education?

Question

Numberwise, welshbloke, thanks for asking...

Answer 1

Then the kids that want to learn would be able to. Kids not in school would have to take menial jobs or just end up in jail and we wouldn't have to do with the lowlifes as we do now on a daily basis. Send them to Mexico if they don't want an education. They'll fit right in and the educated, productive wouldn't have to even look at them.

Answer 2

In numbers or IQ or educated?

Answer 3

if people have no education then in the long run people will turn to crime as a means to provide people talents will be wasted there will be alot of dumbasses. and eventually dictatorshipp will rise and democracy will fall.

think about it...

Answer 4

It would all be the same. Except they would all be chavs. :)

Answer 5

Desperate. Millions of wage slaves in sudden dire need of affordable childcare.

Answer 6

iggnorunt (sic)

Answer 7

Stupid, no doubt.

Answer 8

Even more stupid.

Answer 9

uh weird, crazy, stupid, dumb!

Answer 10

There is nothing worse than angry, dumb people.  I'd imagine it would be a nightmare to have a bunch of ignoramouses running around.

Answer 11

Gretchen took the words right out of my mouth!

I think its effects may be hard to predict - birth rates would almost certainly be higher, but I think mortality would too.

Answer 12

arguably not that much different from what many parts of the population have already become (I'm talking about England). We have compulsory education but when you think of many of our school leavers, you wonder what they were doing other than wasting the teachers' time.

Answer 13

un-educated I guess. Pretty much heading that way already though isn't it?